Stephen Ormsby

Stephen Ormsby (1759-1844) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-KY 3) from 1811 to 1813 (succeeding Henry Crist and preceding Richard M. Johnson) and from KY-8 from 1813 to 1817 (preceding Richard C. Anderson Jr.).

Biography
Stephen Ormsby was born in County Sligo, Ireland in 1759, and he emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while he was a boy. He became a lawyer in 1786 and moved to Danville, Kentucky, and he served under Josiah Harmar during the wars against the Native Americans. He served as a presidential elector in 1796, as a circuit court judge from 1802 to 1810, in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1817, and as President of the Bank of the United States in Louisville in 1817, and he died in 1844.